2015

People afflicted with “electromagnetic hypersensitivity”—ailments related to being around devices like cell phones that emit electromagnetic frequencies—have flocked to the town of Green Bank, West Virginia, where modern technology has been banned due to their possible interference with a government telescope. The locals aren’t happy about the stream of newcomers.

A brief examination of drinking water’s place in American history, and the current politics of clean water.

Insider-y account of what went wrong with the Fire phone: Bezos himself served as head of product for the device, which meant teams would be hesitant to question his ideas. The stumble means more questions about whether Amazon is on the right track.

In the midst of the Great Recession and its bleak job prospects, Alex and Nick Kleeman scraped together enough cash to buy a 32-foot sailboat and plunged into the Pacific for the adventure of their lives. So what if they didn’t know how to sail?

Tor Ekeland, unemployed and burned out from his job working at a corporate law firm, decided to defend Andrew Alan Escher Auernheimer, a Jew-hating hacktivist also known as weev, and challenge a sweeping computer crime law.

Meet Vinnie Myers, known as the “Michelangelo of Nipple Tattoos.”

Residents of Los Angeles’ tony Beachwood Canyon neighborhood are battling hordes of GPS-enabled tourists looking to make a pilgrimage to the city’s most popular and unregulated landmark.

In Providence, Rhode Island, the mayor hopes getting low-income parents to talk to their very young children more will help boost language skills and close the achievement gap.